The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-24
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


Local and Personal.
J. S. Boyd has been appointed agent Of the |
Vandalia at Jewett
The receiver of the Wabash reports a balance
over and above expenses OF $457.39 Tor the
months of January and February.
Commencing with Sunday next train No /
west over the Vandalia will leave indianapolis
at 11:55 A.. NJ, and stop at Terre Haute twenty
minutes for dinner.
Work has. been commenced on the extension
of the Lake Erie & Western railroad from
Bloomington to Peoria The road will enter
Peoria on the lower bridge.
w. H. Fisher. who representa- the passenger
department Of the c., H. Sc D. at this point, Is
off on weeks treasure trip While away he
will travel extensively in Kansas.
The management of the Boston & Providence
road announce that they are prepared at any
time to settle all just claims for injuries on &C.
count of the Roslyndale bridge disaster.
The stone work on the new railway station
drags. and unless it coon moves more expedi-
tously the prospects of getting into the new rail-
way station this year are decidedly sim.
G. W Fairbanks, attorney of the Corbin syn
dictate. returned from Canton last evening, feel
ing quite easy over the hold the Corbin syndi-
cate has of the Cleveland & Canton road.
The c.. l., St L. & G. yesterday put on three
gravel trains and crews OF men, and will do
good deal the next few months in widening their
coad- and regraveling where it is light
L.,
the Philadelphia s. Reading. and halfdoze
other roads, is now making trip through Flor
ida in his private car. His family accompany
him.
The Traders Dispatch, which seldom gets left
when rates are off. has, it is alleged. been haul
ing 100 carloads of grain from an Indianapolis
elevator rate of seventeen cents from Indi
annapolis to the seaboard.
~. n. Boivin, formerly agent Of the j.. NJ. 81
l. road at this point, on the lst of the month
takes the agency of the road at Louisville, KY.
His numerous friends here will De gratifed to
: learn OF his deserved promotion.
General manager Clements, of the Erie Ex-
press Company, is making general inspection
trip over the roads the company have messen.
gers He denies the report that he contem-
plates rendering his resignation in the near fut-
ure.
ern roads are issuing orders to locomotive engi-
neers to over bridges with caution, slacken-
ing speed when passing over long bridges, no
matter how trustworthy they may be consid
cred.
It is stated that General Manager Bradbury,
Of the Lake Erie & Western system, strongly
.avors removing the general Offices to Indian
apolis. This he should do by all means, then get
within the fold of the Union Railway Company.
and the new management will have made an ex-
cellent beginning
Simeon Frazier who has been in the employ
of the j., NJ 81 l. road for some twenty eight
years, most of the time as agent tomorrow sew
-ers his connection with the road to accept posi-
ton the Florida Railway and Navigation
-Companys lines. He makes the change for the
benefit of his health.
Henry Fraser, general agent Of the B. & 0.
.Kankakee Dispatch, yesterday made large con-
tract on export business to be forwarded after
the new law goes into effect, and billed in con-
formty to the interstate commerce act. This is
the first export contract made it is stated, at
this point Inder the new law.
1t is stated that the Lake Erie e Western
management will gladly continue tine arrange
n1ent by which the through Chicago trains of the
PENNSYLVANIA Company run between Indian
sapolis and Kokomo, over the l., P. & c. tracks,
as 1T yields quite handsome revenue to the
party controlling the l., P. & c.
Sam Sweet who has held the position of gen.
eral passenger and freight agent of the Indian
apols. Peru & Chicago road just one week. is in
the city. He yesterday received notice from
General Manager Scott that the road had been
sold, and TO prepare to turn 1t over to the pur-
chasers on the 1st of the month.
c. L. Paris. who represents the Denver g. Rio
Grande in this territory. is spending few days
in the city. Among the attractions this road
now offers to the travelling public is what is
known as colony cars" They are especially
adapted to coonsts' travel, yet nearly as elegant
and complete as the Pullman coach.
Sam Sweet, general passenger and freigh,
agent of the indianapolis, Peru e Chicago road
expresses the opinion that the seventy five miles
of the l., P. & G. road lying between Indian
apolis and Peru, has the best earning capacity OF
any seventy-fve miles of road in the State OF
Indiana, the Terre Haute & Indianapolis ex
copied
Springfield, O., lie the best freight station the
I b 81 w. COMPANY have on their system i
is unusual thing for this road to take out
of that station forty loaded per day, mostly
with agricultural i'm plements. and to deliver il
twenty-four hours fifty or sixty carloads of coal
Lumber and iron for the several manufacture.
at that point.
The reported sale of the E. & T. H interest il
the Peoria Decatur q Evansville railroad is de
MED most alphabetically by the organ of Mr. D.
J. Mackey-the Evening Tribune-which say,
1.-THE majority of the stock of the road is owned
md controlled by Mr.. Mackey and his friends
who have not sold nor have they any idea O
selling It," That settles it.
It is stated good authority that tn,
option will remain open to the Ives Stayner syn
dictate for the control of the Baltimore e. Ohi
railroad until April l. Mr. Garrett. it is said
cleared $2OG, 0ao out of the Sully syndicate fail
ure, and it is aao stated that the Garrett inter
ast has purchased all the stock of the Johns
Hopkins University None of the stock Of the
road was offered for sale yesterday.
The Railroad Gazette, in its last issue pub
fishes a lengthy description and cuts of the fir
extngusher actuated by derailment brake. TIL
p, q. q St l.. company have made six YER
satisfactory tests of this derailment brake an,
extinguisher The following figures show HOY
cheaply the apparatus can be maintained: Wit
acid at II cent per pound and soda at Al cert
per pound the apparatus can be charged for 8
cents
One of the interesting questions which tn
Interstate Commissioners will be called upon {
decide as conservators of the public good
whether the dressed-meat rate is to be deter
mined on its merits as railroad traffic questio
rather than with reference to the interests an
necessities of the livestock shippers, whose bus
ness will be injured if the difference of IS pc
cent or Whereabouts between the two classes O
traffic is not maintained
The L., N. A. & G. people are again disturbe
concerning their terminal facilities at IndianaI
Oils and will now take steps to get in here indie
pendent of other roads. There is a strong pre-:
sure being brought to bear on the management